Sustainable practices for landfill design and operation /
Townsend, Timothy G.author
Powell, Jon.author.
Jain, Pradeep.author.
Xu, Qiyong.author.
Tolaymat, Thabet.author.
Reinhart, Debra.author.
The management of municipal solid waste in many countries throughout the world has changed significantly over the past fifty years, with a shift from uncontrolled dumping or burning to complex systems that integrate multiple processes to recover materials or energy and provide containment to reduce environmental impacts. This volume, the first in the series Waste Management Principles, gives readers a comprehensive overview of advances in sustainable landfill design and operation. The authors developed this volume to serve as a tool for designers, regulators, and other parties interested in sustainable landfill practices and to be used in conjunction with fundamental design methodologies, location-specific regulations, new and emerging research results, and good engineering judgment. Dozens of graphs, figures, and tables provided throughout the text provide the designer with an excellent foundation to begin their analysis and apply the principles from this book to their site or facility.  In like fashion, operational experiences are provided throughout, tying in the important underlying fundamental concepts (e.g., accelerated gas production after liquids addition) to critical operational considerations (e.g., how to effectively collect the additional gas that is produced). The body of work presented here results from the development of bioreactor landfill design guidelines for the US Environmental Protection Agency’s National Risk Manageme nt Laboratory, along with the combined knowledge and experience of the authors pertaining to sustainable practices for design and operation of sanitary landfills.  .
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CHAPTER 1.The Landfill’s Role in Sustainable Waste Management -- CHAPTER 2.Waste and Landfill Fundamentals -- CHAPTER 3.  Planning for Sustainable Landfilling Practices -- CHAPTER 4.State of Practice.-  CHAPTER 5.Landfill Constituent Relationships and Dynamics --  CHAPTER 6.Moisture Supply and Conveyance -- CHAPTER 7.Systems for Surface Addition of Liquids -- CHAPTER 8.  Buried Vertical Systems for Liquids Addition -- CHAPTER 9.Buried Horizontal Systems for Liquids Addition -- CHAPTER 10.Leachate Collection and Removal Systems (LCRS) -- CHAPTER 11. Leachate Control, Storage, and Treatment -- CHAPTER 12.Slope Stability -- CHAPTER 13.LFG -- CHAPTER 14.Landfill Air Addition -- CHAPTER 15.Operations -- CHAPTER 16.Tools and Techniques for Landfill Monitoring.-  CHAPTER 17.Final Landfill Disposition -- CHAPTER 18.Economics.
The management of municipal solid waste in many countries throughout the world has changed significantly over the past fifty years, with a shift from uncontrolled dumping or burning to complex systems that integrate multiple processes to recover materials or energy and provide containment to reduce environmental impacts. This volume, the first in the series Waste Management Principles, gives readers a comprehensive overview of advances in sustainable landfill design and operation. The authors developed this volume to serve as a tool for designers, regulators, and other parties interested in sustainable landfill practices and to be used in conjunction with fundamental design methodologies, location-specific regulations, new and emerging research results, and good engineering judgment. Dozens of graphs, figures, and tables provided throughout the text provide the designer with an excellent foundation to begin their analysis and apply the principles from this book to their site or facility.  In like fashion, operational experiences are provided throughout, tying in the important underlying fundamental concepts (e.g., accelerated gas production after liquids addition) to critical operational considerations (e.g., how to effectively collect the additional gas that is produced). The body of work presented here results from the development of bioreactor landfill design guidelines for the US Environmental Protection Agency’s National Risk Manageme nt Laboratory, along with the combined knowledge and experience of the authors pertaining to sustainable practices for design and operation of sanitary landfills.  .
Sanitary landfills
Sustainable design
Biotechnology.
Environmental management.